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In order to give participants time to prepare their ideas and tools, the theme and significant asset have been revealed on the official GameJam website.

Details:

• Time/Date: 5pm Friday, 6 August – 3pm, Sunday 8 August 8th
• Location: 15 Barron Parade in Joondalup
• RSVP: simonwittber@gmail.com

Here’s an approximate map (showing Barron Parade):

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The next Perth GameJam is just under two weeks away. That means we’re just two weeks and a few days away from playing some sweet, sweet GameJam games!

It also means that you need to sign-up soon in order to secure your place!

For more information visit the GameJam homepage.

The second ever Global Game Jam is on this weekend and everyone here at Let’s Make Games would like to wish all participants the very best of luck.

For those of you who don’t know about the phenomenon that is Global Game Jam, here’s a quick summary: 48 hours of unadulterated creative energy poured into collective game development at breakneck speeds by teams all over the world!

Here in Perth, the local site is being hosted at the Joondalup Business Centre. Setup begins at 5pm tonight and submissions must be in by 3pm on Sunday (the event officially ends at 6pm on Sunday – leaving some time to actually play the games!).

Thanks to the efforts of Simon Wittber (aka. Different Methods), Perth is very well represented as a regional centre for game jamming. Perth was the only Australian location for the first Global Game Jam (at which point Simon had already organised two previous local game jams). This year, the Perth site is also being supported by local game developers Rockethands and Subversive Games.

For more information, see: the Global Gam Jam website; the list of participants for the Perth site; the local event schedule; and the official website for the Perth site.

Details:

• Title: Show Us Your Bits
• Time/Date: 7:00pm – 10:00pm, Tuesday, May 26
• Location: The Wineroom @ The Brass Monkey, 209 William St, Northbridge
• RSVP: Comment on this post or use the Facebook event page.

And the flier! (Click on the flier for a printable version.)

Show Us Your Bits - May Mixer and Showcase

There will be a projector showcasing some of the GameJam projects – if you would like your team’s project in the showcase, please be sure to notify us in your RSVP so that we can make sure to include your entry in the schedule.

With that in mind, this month’s event will be an opportunity to learn about GameJam, play previous entries, and find some like-minded people to jam with!

Details:

• Title: Let’s Make GameJam!
• Time/Date: 6:30pm – 9:30pm, Tuesday, April 28
• Location: eCentral TAFE, 140 Royal Street, East Perth
• RSVP: Comment on this post or use the Facebook event page

Here’s a flyer (click image for printable version):

There will be computer labs available for people to show off their portfolios and previous work. We’d like to extend a huge thanks for eCentral TAFE for providing the venue.

Please be sure to RSVP so that we can arrange for drinks ($1 softdrinks) and food ($2 hotdogs: meat or vegetarian) weather permitting.